Heym,
It's a linux mailing list, and the question was referred to linux,
The guy is obviously new to linux and is still used to calling
a shell script "Batch file".
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000, Daniel Feiglin wrote about "Re: how long since you've heard
>one like this.......?":
> > sleep is fine, pause waits on a signal. See man sleep & man pause
> > respectively.
>
> If you're joking, you should have added a ":)" or something. Otherwise I'll
> assume you're speaking seriously. In this case, what are you talking about??
>
> I understood that question was about DOS ("batch file") commands, not for Unix
> system calls!! 'man' would be completely irellevant to answer a DOS question,
> and the fact there's a "pause" system call in Unix (which I'm very well aware
> of, thank you very much) is completely irrelevant.
>
> A great quote from /usr/share/games/fortunes/people (on Redhat, at least):
> "If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will."
>
>
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